11-10-19 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[browningautorifle]

Pretty close...

[Bill Hollinger]

I'll bet that rang his bell!

Close is an understatement Jim!

[donki1967]

Lucky boy!I hope he has kept his chance until the end of war...

[browningautorifle]

Has to be a later photo too, right hand M1 rifle has a M1 sling, flat slider...the Carbine up front seems to have an adjustable sight...or is it just me? Wonder where this one was taken...

[Ex Crab]

I notice that they're all smiling except the man front left and rear right. I wonder what they were thinking.

[Flying10uk]

I wonder if that helmet survives in a museum or private collection somewhere because it is the sort of thing seen in museums occasionally?

Sometimes it is an object that the soldier has had in his pocket that has saved his life by stopping or deflecting a bullet. Sometimes it pays to have a bible, or other type of publication, in one's pocket. The case below may have been a long range shot where some of the energy behind the bullet had already been lost?

Bible saved WW1 soldier by | West Country - ITV News

[browningautorifle]

I wonder if that helmet survives in a museum or private collection

To be honest...if I were his Snr NCO, I'd have him over to QM to draw a new one. Once they're gimped they aren't reliable. Can't imagine where he'd store it until repat, you can't ship it home as it's army property... Doubt it, just another lucky story.

[CINDERS]

A WWI AIF helmet from the battlefields was on tour with Gallipoli and other France artifacts from the AWM in 2017 touring country towns no info on the wearer would have rung ones ears I should say.